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These piano breakthroughs changed music forever
Yesterday was Piano Day – a day recently christened by composer/pianist Nils Frahm in order to celebrate that ubiquitous keyboard instrument. (It’s held on the eighty-eighth day of the year.) There are concerts, marathons, project, releases – and unlike Record Store Day, this event won’t clog the ability to produce piano music. With that day […]
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Watch Una Corda, a software piano with a difference
The piano has been living with a beautiful legacy, but that legacy can double as tyranny. The Steinway Model D, favorite instrument of mine that it is, has also frozen the technological development of the keyboard instrument. And that’s why the Una Corda is different. Built custom by David Klavins, and associated with that builder’s […]
Peter Kirn - February 5, 2016
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Perfect, Beautiful Music for Free From Erased Tapes [2014 in Review]
Erased Tapes was an endlessly inspiring label in 2014. With a singular, understated focus on quality and music orbiting the keyboard, the acoustic, and minimal post-classical introspection, they were a calming counterpart to the year’s steroid-pumped festival commercialism. And first and foremost, they were about records — not fancy design accessories, not “throw everything at […]
Peter Kirn - January 6, 2015
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Hear Beautiful, Melancholy Christmas Mixes from Nils Frahm
Peter Kirn - December 25, 2014
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